In remembrance of the forgotten children of Ghouta

A team of UN chemical weapons inspectors have confirmed that the nerve agent Sarin was used in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus on the morning of 21 August. 2013.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the UN Security Council that he believed the attack constituted a war crime. The UN report, he said, detailed the "most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them" in Halabja in 1988.

That was two years ago.
Until today nobody was held responsible, even investigations were not launched.

Obama and Putin agreed that the only punishment was to confiscate the weapon of the killer and let him free to kill more and more children.

Assad gave up his chemical weapons and improved the techniques of indiscriminate barrel bombing.

Almost exactly two years after the devastating chemical weapons attacks, Assad targeted the same region and the world did not take action.
"The government's bombing of (Douma) yesterday is devastating," The UN's Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura said. "Hitting crowded civilian markets killing almost one hundred of its own citizens by a government is unacceptable in any circumstances."
Sunday's series of raids on the town of Douma was one of the bloodiest regime attacks in Syria's four-year war.

A Syrian father who lost his son in the horror of  the two years after declared

"I do not understand why they got rid of the chemical weapons. They were more humane that the actual barrel bombs the regime is using. At least chemical weapons did not blow the children to pieces. Those whose children were killed by Sarin two years ago were able to hold their children and kiss them before burying them. I was not able to. My son was torn to pieces by the barrel bombing."

Is saying “unacceptable” an acceptable response?

“UN Syrian Envoy Condemns 'Unacceptable' Air Strike Massacre »
Monday 17, August, 2015

This came after the Syrian regime deployed yesterday 'scorched earth' policy in 10 strikes on busy market with death toll nearing 100 among which 35 children. Another 240 people were wounded, and the death toll continues to rise as those in a serious condition succumb to their injuries.

"The government's bombing of (Douma) yesterday is devastating," The UN's Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura said. "Hitting crowded civilian markets killing almost one hundred of its own citizens by a government is unacceptable in any circumstances."
Sunday's series of raids on the town of Douma was one of the bloodiest regime attacks in Syria's four-year war. They came almost exactly two years after devastating chemical weapons attacks on the same region that much of the international community blamed on the Syrian government.

An AFP photographer described the attack as the worst he had covered in the town.
“He saw dozens of bodies lined up on the bloodied floors of one of Douma's makeshift clinics, as medics struggled to treat waves of wounded.
Two young boys with bloodied faces sat on a stretcher as they awaited treatment, one resting as though exhausted while the other cried.” (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/199558#.VdHlsPmqpBc)

The least to say is that the reaction from around the world is lukewarm.
It is as if the world does not care.
I can hear some asking me "what can the world do? it is a civil war"

No it is not a civil war. Assad is a dictator barrel bombing his people; a dictator who would have collapsed long ago, if it was not for the support of Iran and Russia. Iran has boots on the ground and Russia holds the door of Security Council and supplies the weapons.
He is a dictator who bowed to international pressure and handed in his chemical weapons when the US threatened to intervene.

The “West” is playing the game of protecting their interests. The UN is a cowardly lame duck. The world turns a blind eye to Assad's terrorism and war crimes.
Syrians seem to be unlikeable victims and ethics in politics are no more in fashion.

I am ashamed to live in such an era....

I conclude with a heart-breaking message from a Syrian father who lost his son in the horror of 16 August 2015

"I do not understand why they got rid of the chemical weapons. They were more humane that the actual barrel bombs the regime is using. At least chemical weapons did not blow our children to pieces. We were able to hold them and kiss them before burying them"